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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5503365" data-attributes="member: 98255">I kind of like tokens. Tokens are better than some of the alternatives, some of the time.I have zero (0) miniatures, no desire to spend a small fortune acquiring some, nor the time/patience to paint them up nice-nice. I wish I did on all counts.That said, tokens can be a lot more flavourful than dice or coins. Tokens have colourful pictures on them which make them easier to discern from one another than a wad of d6es or pile of pennies. You can flip them over to display their bloodied status clearly.Coins and dice, however, are rarely sized for creatures larger than  Medium or Small. Even the whacky 1$ and 2$ Canuck coins are scarcely  larger than one square or hex.Dice are better when there are more of a given creature in the encounter than you have tokens, and have the advantage of helping keep things straight by being able to display a number. Coins make great minions; especially pennies, as like minions, they are numerous and expendable.Tokens suck when you don't have the "right" ones almost as much as it does for minis. We recently had a scrape with 6 Stone Golems, but there was only a single Stone Golem token, so we subbed in various giants instead. There weren't enough of a single type of anything to have all 6 numbered properly, so the tokens had dice sitting on top of them anyway.They're good in a pinch, when you're just starting out, on a budget, or any other time when minis are unavailable. I think hate is extreme. Disdain? I can understand that, but hate? They have their uses.This thread makes me wish I knew someone about to divest themselves of the hobby and all its trappings.</blockquote>

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